Citing & Evaluating Research

Citing your resources: Print and Electronic Style Guides

Sources: Why cite? When and how to cite? (Dartmouth)
Research and Documentation Online. Guide to the major documentation styles, print and electronic: MLA (Humanities); APA (Social Sciences); Chicago Manual of Style (History); CBE (Science).
Style Sheets for Citing Resources - Quick guides to the major styles from UC Berkeley.
Styles of Documenting - UPenn Documenting Information
Tutorial on APA Style
APA Electronic Style
ASCE Style (American Society of Civil Engineers)
Basic Legal Citation
Guide for Preparing Manuscripts for Criminology (American Society of Criminologists)
Citation Styles (excerpted from Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources by Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger)
MLA Electronic Style
ICMJE Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (also known as the Vancouver Style) - Samples of reference citation formats.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. (APA Style). Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2001. Information desk BF76.7 .P83 2001)
The Chicago Manual of Style. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993. Information desk Z253.U69 2003)
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003. Information desk LB2369 .G53 2003)
A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker. Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, c1999. Information desk PE1408 .H2778 2003

Evaluating Sources Of Information
From James Madison University Library. (It's one module of a comprehensive tutorial. The exercises are limited to use by their students.)
Evaluating Internet Information
Johns Hopkins University Library. Provides a discussion of the criteria by which scholars in most fields evaluate print information, and shows how the same criteria can be used to assess information found on the Internet.
Evaluating Internet Resources (SUNY Albany Libraries)

Last Modified: November 16, 2007